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Surrounded By Prayer
July 22, 2012

My friend Melissa’s 9-year-old daughter Sydnie was in the hospital for chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant when I had a dream about her. I dreamed she was staying in a central room at the hospital with her parents. Surrounding her room was a block of other rooms where family and friends were staying and continually praying for her during her times of treatment.

In real life, Sydnie wasn’t physically surrounded by family and friends in adjacent rooms. But spiritually speaking, she was and is surrounded by prayer and love.

The apostle Paul seemed to have a desire to be surrounded by prayer. In most of his letters to churches, he requested to be remembered in prayer to the Lord (2 Cor. 1:11; Eph. 6:18-20; Col. 4:2-4; Philem. 1:22). To the believers in Rome, he wrote, “Now I beg you, brethren, . . . that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me” (Rom. 15:30). He knew that he could not be effective in his service for God without His power.

The Bible tells us that Jesus also prays for us (John 17:20; Heb. 7:25), as does the Holy Spirit, whose prayers are according to the will of God (Rom. 8:27). What a comfort to be surrounded by prayer!

We give to those we hold most dear
No greater help and care
Than when we give them to the Lord,
Surrounding them with prayer. —D. De Haan

Prayer prompted by the Holy Spirit is powerful.

Read: Romans 15:22-33

Now I beg you, brethren, . . . that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me. —Romans 15:30

Bible in a Year:
Ecclesiastes 4-6

[MEG33]

Good Sunday Morning

Kingfisher

We give to those we hold most dear
No greater help and care
Than when we give them to the Lord,
Surrounding them with prayer. —D. De Haan

Amen...Thank you for starting our day off right today and every day, Rus.
Wishing you a blessed Lord's Day

[jaycee]

Wonderful lesson in our Daily Bread today, Rus. Thank you
for your faithfulness to God and us.

[geologist]

We are miracles, living in the midst of miracles, and we barely notice it. The Atom, how our functions work, our entire system creates the exact secretions to digest our food, provide energy, the thyroid system the bile system turning our food into nutrients, the blood system, the circulation system, etc.. and so on. Simply amazing complex systems that we only partially understand how it works and how in often heals itself. Bones knit together, cuts close and heal. It is all miracle stuff and we take it for granted.

Let us grow in time spent reading the Word of God. It changes us bit by bit, just like all the other systems, it works whether we know how or not. HALLELUJAH!!! Amen!